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I've recently found a Google Chat which I thought I had lost. Does anyone know of a way of downloading it and viewing it outside of Google Chat?

I got back to setting up pxebooting and found it suprisingly easy to get going. I use dnsmasq to serve up images and it only needs a few settings.

cross: I am using that setup: FreeBSD server with Jellyfin service Nvidia Shield Pro with Jellyfin client This works perfectly for me. However, since NFS on Android (at least on the the Shield) is iffy, the server runs both NFS and Samba, the...

FreeBSD has been essential to most of my jobs since the end of the nineties. Admittedly, I introduced it in most cases.

Hmm. Browsing around the internet, asking myself "do I want to use Jellyfin as a streaming server on my new FreeBSD server?" this thread has me concerned that it might not be wise. I have an nVidia Shield TV Pro, running Kodi, and I have for...

Most Linux people do not understand true freedom in principle. They think 'forced' freedom with GPL is the 'real' freedom - but this is not freedom - its forced ... something trying to be freedom. BSD people know that real freedom comes without...

Since I ask the tarot cards, I make no errors and all my coding is memory-safe without even trying!

"You are either with us/Linux, or against us/Linux"

Or perhaps use older standards: mandoc -Tman txl.mdoc > txl.man

this seems like it should be cause for serious self-reflection, but what do we know, we're just a coyote

Without understanding mdoc, those .Cm introduce text as bold face, have clearly a wanted effect in the representation, perhaps their are though to be used in other logical context.

I dunno about that. When I'm in Dutchland I can read restaurant menus but not much else.

I will make a hobby of bumping all Alain threads all the time. It's forum culture.

So it was Linux' fault that triggered it but bad error handling (or lack of same) in FreeBSD that made it a hard to debug problem.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55373

Thanks, I may try this, as maybe it will be a workaround until the defect is fixed. I'm not sure if the issue is unique to my graphics card though and, if so, if a bug has been logged for it. I may just wait until 580.126.18 is in the LATEST...

This cannot be repeated often enough or widely enough ! ! !

Did you try with another compositor like x11-wm/picom ? I also have some strange things with the Xfce one and my GT 610. I am using x11-wm/picom with x11/mate and x11-wm/fvwm3 to suppress tearing with Xorg and it does a good job.

Just for what it's worth, I've found whenever I've called Spectrum to complain about price, they have worked with me to lower it. I actually called them a few days ago, as my price had gone up again, and, as I told them, had they not gotten...

I have no problem with being the black sheep. My other hill I'm willing to die on is Lisp, and that rather ups your rep score.

The closer I get to "retirement" the fewer opinions I care about. My dogs, my wife, the butcher that is cutting me a 4lb boneless ribeye roast from the big end: those I care about. The rest of humanity? Not so much.

wtf

devel/hello_world has no dependencies and only 1 version. It's on my github. First thing needed: a working Makefile that fetches the source file and registers the package hello_world. The result is /usr/local/bin/hello_world existing and pkg info...

Where it really shines is outside of Linux/BSD and with RISC OS. So much great software for it including word processors, art suites, compilers that see it as a "high end" machine so runs blazingly fast. Random screenshots. The original...

Yes, the 1650 GPU is supported with the latest 580 driver. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/264091/ The 470 driver should work as well. It's listed as a legacy driver. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/226762/

Click to focus: that rules out any focus follows mouse (I prefer focus follows mouse so I usually have to tweak things so windows don't autoraise on me). I'm at the point of "out of ideas" other than "there is a nvidia-drm-515" plus a few other...

That's approach from the wrong side, in my opinion. I made hello_world.c. Where can I find the things that are needed to make it a port that can be built and installed with the "make install" command? This is a checklist...

Hi All I'm using ports-mgmt/pkg to installing got "file not found" failed even if it was previously installed Example 1: ... [54/76] Installing sysconftool-0.22... [54/76] Extracting sysconftool-0.22: 100% [55/76] Installing...

Did you make sure seatd is running? I'm not sure from the error message that it is (running). The handbook covers Wayland, https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/ (though they don't mention hyperland there). Anyway, you will need...

Very true. Though the direction of the leadership is to remain UNIX-like. With GNU and Linux this has only ever been a symptom of its legacy, rather than a direction. Big, tangled and heavy has always been the GNU way. Plus BSD leadership isn't...

I still use mutt, and only on occasion do I have to use an external viewer to see some html stuff that isn't visible in text. (and most times, those turn out to be spam. The more reputable companies and my doctors use whatever they use and I can...

To add to this - I really massively dislike all the mess around fancy stuff like high bitrate. most of people is more that ok with 44.1kHz. what is little bit more viable is bit depth. 16bit does not cover all the the dynamic range human ear can...

Just for what it's worth, I've found whenever I've called Spectrum to complain about price, they have worked with me to lower it. I actually called them a few days ago, as my price had gone up again, and, as I told them, had they not gotten...

This setup of mine with Openbox/Tint2/Dzen2 is ultra lightweight yet powerful and nice looking. Details here: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd-desktop/

Garbled/distorted sound in bitperfect mode is an indication of following: 1. the audio file is not exactly 96kHz. that is then hardware does not properly process it. 2. most likely - judging from the same experience that I also have with 2...

Every month? I just had a $5 increase last week for the first time in who knows how long. At least two years. I don't use it but over the past year I've seen a significant number of the flat antennas popping up in rural areas.

Alpine/Pine/Mutt and external viewers. The way email should be, although I do use claws-mail.

I'm using Xfce, and the settings are all out-of-the-box. It's set to click to focus, and no changes are happening between the NVIDIA driver switching when I change versions from 580 to 470. Here is the output of xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -lv in case...

You have to learn the entire ports framework which is too much asked for a 1000 lines single-file program. Using FreeBSD for 20 years but I never made an official port because it's a massive maze that takes too much time with few results. I would...

A little innovation in tcl9 helped me rewrite my "preprocessor" much shorter and more consistent (new escapes): the flag "-command" to regsub. Little innovation, big power! No more FORTRANic handcrafted parsing: Now it is more general purpose...

An Unix Workstation does not require a GUI. If you are using workstation tools that are graphical, yes. If you aren't, no. My programmers, and every place I worked, we didn't need or use graphical tools anywhere for programming. My graphics...

I used many years the BSD 'mail', read attachments with 'metamail'. You are right that now one gets links, attachments with images, so that GUI is inevitable. But I would never use a GUI program for mail, the idea is an horror. I use apline...

Indeed. Though a lot of people did weigh it up and change distros. Some distros like Devuan were even invented to avoid the breakage. BSDs also got a big boost to user-base. The bigger issue is that diverging from common software (i.e Debian...

Those look like files you would expect to be identified as having been changed from a bare install - you have added users, set up wireless, installed another shell, etc.

I do not paint and do audio. But I can tell you my 'alternative' to Openoffice: TeX. Well, it is not alternative, because Openofficice is far away to compete with TeX. And no, I do not reject GUI, but the nauseating GUI bloat.

Thanks. That looks so simple. I can't understand why I couldn't figure this out for myself.

If the corporations were just working on it for their own professional use, that wouldn't be so bad; they tend to do minimal work, avoid redundant or breaking changes and just fix issues. IBM's AIX is a fairly good example of this. Its the fact...

To be clear: you want two windows (not panes) [1] opened, each window split in two, right? Example: open two windows, split each horizontally: #!/bin/sh tmux new-session -s test -d tmux splitw -h tmux neww tmux splitw -h tmux attach-session -d...

Is it? What is Ardour/Rosegarden/LMMS alternative for CLI, what is Krita/Inkscape alternative, Openoffice? It seems like every week I need to remind people at least once of this concept...

Here you have ready do copy/paste guide without any 'bulky' additional ZFS modules or frameworks (like ohmyzsh) that works like a charm on FreeBSD/Linux/macOS/... https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/ghost-in-the-shell-part-7-zsh-setup/